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The last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning

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2022

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Titre :	The last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning
Auteur :	Raines, Ben, author.
Édition :	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Format :	Book
Éditeur, date :	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022. ©2022
Description :	xvii, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Résumé :	"The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day--by the journalist who discovered the ship's remains"--Dust jacket flap.
Sujets :	Clotilda (Ship) Slavery -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century. Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century. West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century. Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Mobile -- Biography. Shipwrecks -- Alabama -- Mobile River. African Americans -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History. Africatown (Ala.) -- History.
Contenu :	The bet -- The voyage of the Clotilda -- The King of the Amazons -- Captured -- Barracoon -- Into the canebreak -- Five years a slave -- An African town -- Africatown--the fall -- Finding Clotilda -- Finding a future in the past -- Reconciliation -- Coda.
ISBN	9781982136048

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